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The tight economy demands a smaller criminal justice system.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Image from Bureau of Engraving and Printing's website. What are the United States' largest socialist programs? This year's nearly trillion dollar bailout of AIG and other financial institutions is one. The social security system is another. Certainly, the criminal justice system is a major socialist enterprise, as well, which helps explain why so many economic conservatives want to downsize or eliminate the drug war.  In these belt-tightening times, the criminal justice system is particularly overgrown. The system needs to be shrunk substantially, in large part through legalizing marijuana, gambling and prostitution, and by heavily decriminalizing all other drugs. Drug prosecutions occupy a huge chunk of court, police, and prosecutorial time, so marijuana legalization and heavy drug decriminalization already will help to heavily shrink the nation's criminal justice system...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on November 09, 2008 (boomark / email).